CONGRESS IS ALL A-TWITTER |
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MUSICAL TITLE LETTER DROP |
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STATE UNIVERSITY BY ALUMS |
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This senator tweeted: "Payson, AZ now holds the record for my longest town hall meeting - 2:32 mins!" |
(John) McCain
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Good luck when you ask the singers "What I Did For Love"; they never tell the truth in this musical |
A Chorus Lie
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Carson, California is home base for "Spirit of America", one of this company's blimps |
Goodyear
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Pope Benedict XVI is the first pope of this nationality in nearly 1,000 years |
German
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Laura Bush, Michael Dell, Moon walker Alan Bean |
(University of) Texas
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People often remark, "I hate to say" this phrase meaning "you were warned" (but they still say it) |
I told you so
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He tweets under his own name & @GOPLeader |
(Paul: Who is... McConnell?) (Keagan: Who is Steele?) [NOTE: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor took over the @GOPLeader Twitter account on 2011-01-05. Thus, the clue was correct when the show taped, but was incorrect by the time the show aired.]
John Boehner
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NASA astronaut Mr. Grissom gets to gamble, sing & dance as Nathan Detroit in this updated version |
Gus and Dolls
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Carson, Wash. is just above the Columbia River, less than a mile from a highway named for these explorers |
Lewis & Clark
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His 34-day reign in 1978 was one of the shortest in papal history |
(Keagan: Who is John VI?)
Pope John Paul I
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Walter Reed, Edgar Allan Poe, George F. Allen (who later was governor & a U.S. senator) |
Virginia
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This 1972 feminist anthem was a No. 1 hit for Helen Reddy |
(Alex: Hear me roar!)
I Am Woman
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This House speaker was "Very joyful court ruled against Prop. 8, it is a stain upon the CA Constitution" |
(Nancy) Pelosi
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"Ol' Man River" sung by pigs! Count me in! |
Sowboat
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Kit Carson Peak is one of this mountainous state's many 14ers |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Colorado
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During the reign of Alexander III, it was established that the pope would be elected exclusively by this body |
the College of Cardinals
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Bob Dylan, man of the heart Dr. Christiaan Barnard, Alan Page (for law school) |
The University of Minnesota
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First title "Poem of the Body", this "charged" Walt Whitman poem got its present 5-word title in 1857 |
(Alex: Your brain was working very hard on that one, I could tell.)
"I Sing the Body Electric"
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This state's Sen. Claire McCaskill talked sports with "Congrats to Chiefs for surprising Denver today" |
(Alex: Yes, with less than a minute to go.)
Missouri
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Embrace the atoms as Simba & company lose & gain electrons en masse in this production |
The Ion King
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There have been 12 popes with this devout name, the first during the second century, the last from 1939 to 1958 |
Pius
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James Carville, Donna Brazile, Pete Maravich (but only one averaged 44.2 points per game there) |
Louisiana State University (LSU)
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Will Rogers is famous for this sentence of goodwill about all those he encountered |
I never met a man I didn't like
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Referring to his wife, this Ohio rep urged, "Please vote for Elizabeth in Week 2 of Cleveland Dancing show" |
(Rachel: Oh shoot... who is Bob Dole?)
Dennis Kucinich
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Drop an "L" from a Rodgers & Hammerstein roundabout & you get to do this, drunkenly revel |
Carouse
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Clement VII, born into this powerful family, was raised by his uncle Lorenzo the Magnificent |
(Rachel: Who... what is the Borgias?)
the de' Medicis
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Phil Knight (of Nike fame), Bill Bowerman (of Nike fame), Steve Prefontaine (of Nike fame) |
Oregon
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